Ghost ideas/thoughts please

[dale]

Colin J Thomson wrote:
> Hi,
> 

> I have followed the threads on "ghosting" a drive but I dont feel very 
> comfortable just yet trying it, the plan of action is ghost my working fC2 
> system (hda) to the new SATA drive (sda) and Boot from the SATA drive.
> 

> I guess then some work/changes maybe required in Grub once I set my BIOS to 
> boot from the SATA drive?

> 
> How does this look or would it be easier/safer to try another method, I 
> have heard of "Spinrite"? being mentioned but have yet to look that one up, 
> anyone had any expereince with Spinrite..

Colin,
	You might want to look at http://www.storm.ca/~yan/Hard-Disk-Upgrade.html
It is geared toward lilo instead of grub but it might be good reading 
material.  I used it to upgrade a mail server drive (substituting rsync 
for cp to minimize downtime).

Thanks,

Dale